Who chooses YouTube's "important videos"?

The ironically named "important videos" playlist has achieved cult status on YouTube.Clips on the list are short, sometimes goofy and often funny. Collectively they've amassed more than 120 million views, and people are challenging each other to finish the entire list.It's got to the point where ...

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....Nokia handsets are being revived by HMD Global, a private equity-backed firm led by former employees of the Finnish company. The company is pushing what it calls the “bothie” as the next evolution of the selfie, using Nokia’s Dual Sight technology to fire up both the rear and front-facing cameras at the same time, shooting video or photos of a subject and the smartphone operator simultaneously, which can be shared live directly to Facebook or YouTube. ...

.... The corporate wellness industry is worth over $40bn (£31m) worldwide according to the Global Wellness Institute with companies looking after their workers’ wellbeing in a much more holistic way. Tech giants such as Google and Facebook are renowned for their approach to employees’ health and wellbeing. ...

.... Snapchat’s parent, Snap Inc, lost $443m over the last three months, compared with $116m in the same period a year ago. Young tech companies are expected to burn through cash at a prodigious rate as they chase customers, but the main worry for shareholders was anaemic user growth, missed revenue targets and the threat from Facebook and Google – both of which have copied some of Snapchat’s key features. ...

....Sky could be forced to pay an extra £600m annually to retain the lion’s share of Premier League matches when the next rights auction launches this year, with Amazon emerging as a potential competitor for the biggest prize in UK sport broadcasting. Google, Apple, Facebook and Netflix are other possible rivals for Britain’s most valuable sports rights, which are split between Sky and BT under the current three-year deal. ...

.... It now describes itself as “a camera company” and released its first piece of hardware, glasses with built-in cameras, last year. Both Facebook, which owns Instagram, and Google have moved to copy many of its innovations. ...

.... The Irish Times keeps a monthly tally of the number of cranes visible from its office – in July there were 69, more than double the 34 when the survey began in February last year. What will be Dublin’s tallest building is rising in Capital Dock, just east of a cluster of developments that already house the flagship international headquarters of Google, Facebook and Airbnb. ...

....The SEC is also under pressure from speculators to recognise bitcoin as a mainstream investment vehicle. The speculators lobbying for change include the Winklevoss twins, Cameron and Tyler, who won a $65m payout after they accused Mark Zuckerberg of stealing their social media idea as the basis for Facebook. ...

.... Last year it ranked No 2, behind Comcast. Given the increased antitrust scrutiny that is coming from the Democrats’ new “Better Deal” policy platform, Donald Trump’s random tweets attacking Google’s fellow tech giant Amazon for its connection to the Washington Post, and his adviser Steve Bannon’s recent comments that Google and Facebook should be regulated as utilities, it is likely Google will only increase its lobbying expenditure in the next few months. ...

....”. Griffith said he had not seen a “significant shift” in ad spend from Google or Facebook into TV following widespread concerns about ads running online next to inappropriate content such as extremist material and fake news. ...

....Digital advertising revenues are not split out, but are thought to have grown by less than 10%. Google and Facebook continue to hoover up nearly all of the digital ad growth, despite continuing concerns about ads running next to inappropriate content such as extremist sites and fake news. ...

....”. Jo Darbyshire, whose Taylor Wimpey-built house has a clause where the ground rent doubles every 10 years and is part of the National Leasehold Campaign group on Facebook, said the ban was “fabulous news”. ...

....West’s tickets have been cancelled by Sheeran’s promoter but Viagogo has refused to refund her any money. More than 2,000 people have joined a Facebook group, Victim of Viagogo, and claim to have been ripped off by the firm. ...

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....It was the biggest crash I've ever seen and the most frightening but incredibly, and thankfully, Richard seems to be mostly OK. Last year, Clarkson and his co-presenters launched DriveTribe, a social network for motoring fans, financed by their own investments and backing of almost £10m from investors including 21st Century Fox and early Facebook backer Jim Breyer. ...

....He just wishes there was more available for the ordinary buyer, and will be at the front of the queue at Crusader Mill on Saturday, fighting 500 others for the privilage of a flat that won’t be finished for two years. Follow Guardian Cities on Twitter and Facebook to join the discussion, and explore our archive here. ...

....McGladdery and her husband, James, say they have since been cut after stepping on glass in their lawn in Torquay, Devon. She claimed she contacted Argos by phone, Facebook, in store and also email after the incident and was furious her warnings were dismissed. ...

....It began when numerous women accused prominent venture capitalist Justin Caldbeck of sexual harassment, prompting the Binary Capital co-founder to step down. He was shortly followed by Dave McClure, who left his company 500 Startups after he it was revealed he sent a Facebook message to a potential employee saying “I didn’t know whether to hire you or hit on you”. ...

...." . But "Unmumsy Mum" blogger Sarah Turner said in an open letter to Dove, posted on Facebook, that supporting the "dangerous" view that it was acceptable to criticise breastfeeding in public could put mums off. ...

....Meanwhile, social media content from the tournament is being adapted into a number of different languages. There will be Facebook pages for fans in Korea, Japan, India, and the Spanish speaking nations. ...

.... And as for its giant rival, consider this gem from Adweek. Facebook “is introducing a new household audience feature that will let brands direct ads to entire families or to specific people within a household. ...

.... Since the problems at the company have been highlighted, the majority of its staff have been retrained. But on the Bovis Homes Victims group on Facebook, there have been claims that buyers are again being pressurised into moving into incomplete homes – a claim which the company has denied. ...

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.... “When it comes to plurality, it is increasingly obvious – and the general election bore this out – that the printed press are of a waning influence and the real media giants today are Google and the social media giants,” he said. Ofcom dismissed an assertion by Fox that its media presence has been diluted with media plurality flourishing from the rise of digital rivals, such as news distributors Google and Facebook and new outlets, such as Vice, BuzzFeed and the Huffington Post. ...

.... It shows that there is at least one polity that is prepared to stand up to the giant tech companies and try to bring them under the rule of the law. The individual countries of Europe are not large enough: Denmark, which has just announced the rather gimmicky appointment of an “ambassador to Silicon Valley”, has a GDP only about two-thirds the size of Facebook’s business. ...

....1bn (2009): The US chipmaker was ordered to pay a fine of more than €1bn for anticompetitive practices after being found to have given price discounts to computer manufacturers Acer, Dell, HP, Lenovo and NEC if they bought its chips. Facebook, €110m (2017): The social media giant was fined for providing incorrect or misleading information during the commission’s 2014 investigation into Facebook’s acquisition of WhatsApp. ...

.... His Twitter posts mocking a freelance journalist turned so creepy – one showed a fake photo of him canoodling with her – that his account was shut down. And on Facebook, he mused about the possibility of being “unjustly imprisoned. ...

....Critics of the Murdochs argue that the family will still be the ultimate owner of assets including the Sun, Times and Wall Street Journal as well as Fox News and Sky News that will give them too much control over UK news media. Fox also argues that over the past seven years media plurality has exploded with the rise of digital rivals such as Google and Facebook and news distributors and new outlets such as Vice, Buzzfeed and Huffington Post while traditional newspaper sales decline. ...

.... Ellen Pao sued a venture capital company for sexual harassment (she lost) and then was forced out at Reddit by user reaction after introducing measures to stifle hateful content. Sheryl Sandberg, second-in-command at Facebook, encourages women to “lean in”, but the complaint is that it shouldn’t be the woman’s job to be more accepted. ...

. Advertisers will pull hundreds of millions of pounds in spending from Google and Facebook this year over concerns about ads running next to inappropriate content such as extremist sites and fake news. ...

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